Hawthorne, CA Parking Rules: Overnight Parking (2026)

Section 10.36.030 is the section of Hawthorne's parking chapter headed "All night parking prohibited," but its operative text targets trucks and commercial vehicles specifically rather than ordinary passenger cars: no one may stop, stand, or park a truck or commercial vehicle on any street, alley, or roadway for longer than thirty minutes between two a.m. and four a.m. of any day. The section traces to the prior code (Section 10-1002) and has carried forward unchanged into the current municipal code. It sits in Chapter 10.36, Stopping, Standing and Parking, alongside the separate seventy-two-hour rule in Section 10.36.050, which lets police impound any vehicle, commercial or not, left on a street or alley for more than a consecutive seventy-two hours, and the one-hour daytime commercial parking cap in Section 10.36.055... [continued cross-reference to Section 10.36.060].

Because Section 10.36.030 does not mention passenger vehicles, an ordinary car left parked overnight on a Hawthorne street is not reached by this particular thirty-minute window; it falls instead under the seventy-two-hour storage limit and any posted street-specific restrictions the city council has separately authorized under Section 10.36.020. Enforcement of Section 10.36.030 falls to the Hawthorne Police Department, which may cite a truck or commercial vehicle found stopped, standing, or parked past the thirty-minute mark inside the two-hour overnight window.